Dillard University

For years, Ashia Williams was used to being a minority in school, despite the diversity of her high school in her hometown of Charlotte, N.C.

Once she got to Hampton University this fall, Williams, 18, said she experienced something she rarely had before — she wasn't the only black student in a classroom.

"(On Monday) I went to my humanities class for the first time and it was nice to be surrounded by so many black people with so many different views from all of us," Williams said, "compared to going to an (Advanced Placement) class in high school and being the only black person in that class and having all of the white faces around you look to you as if...

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